Database: Mortality by cause of death (Luxembourg)

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Primary purpose: Register the occurrence and cause of mortality in Luxembourg territory for residents and non-residents.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Directorate of Health.

Type of information: Data Dictionary - Mortality by cause of death Luxembourg.

Available type of information: number of deaths; causes of death; sex, Chapter (residents and non-residents); Distribution of deaths; Crude death rate per 100,000 population; Evolution of the number of deaths; Evolution of the crude mortality rate per 100,000 inhabitants; Block or group; age group; Number of people residing abroad who died in Luxembourg; Country of residence; Standardized death rate per 100,000 population in European countries; year.

Source of information: Death certificates.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level.

Number of Records: Around 4000 deaths per year (4402 deaths in 2021).

Date range: 1967 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: Mortality by cause of death Luxembourg.

Data access: partially publicly available [2]. The number of deaths by type of tumor and year is available in the table "Death by cause" in the topic "Health" of the "Social conditions" section [3]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].

Contact information: Information [5].